IMPORTANT WARNING: Hydroxyurea can cause a severe decrease in the number of blood cells in your bone marrow. This may cause certain symptoms and may increase the risk that you will develop a serious infection or bleeding.
Stage IV colon cancer commonly spreads to the liver or the lungs. Some patients who have cancer that has spread to a single area are candidates for surgery to remove the metastases. Treatment of the liver: When itâs possible to completely surgically remove all liver metastases, surgery is the preferred treatment.
Every year, about 129,000 U.S. residents are told they have cancer of the colon or the rectum. More than half of these patients have the disease spread, or metastasize, to their liver, but often the disease spreads no further.Until very recently, this didn't make much difference: when the liver tumors were inoperable, or unable to be removed, no more than one in five patients responded to chemotherapy.ec. 29, 1999 (Atlanta) -- A new way to administer chemotherapy greatly improves survival among colorectal cancer patients whose disease has spread to the liver.